Do I Sound Like a Broken Record?

The Marshfield Clinic case: the sound of a broken record.

Why Do People Like Loud Sound? A Qualitative Study

Many people choose to expose themselves to potentially dangerous sounds such as loud music, either via speakers, personal audio systems, or at clubs. The Conditioning, Adaptation and Acculturation to Loud Music (CAALM) Model has proposed a theoretical basis for this behaviour. To compare the model to data, we interviewed a group of people who were either regular nightclub-goers or who controlle...

Why do I like people like me?

In many dimensions the ability to assess knowledge depends critically on the observer's own knowledge of that dimension. Building on this feature, this paper offers both theoretical and empirical evidence showing that, in those tasks where multidisciplinary knowledge is required, evaluations exhibit a similar-to-me effect: candidates who excel in the same dimensions as the evaluator tend to be ...

What do we expect spontaneous speech to sound like?

Listeners have been shown to distinguish text read aloud from spontaneous speech, with a range of prosodic features suggested as cues to speech style. However, significant variation is seen across studies, both in speech elicitation methods and in the nature of listeners’ orientation to prosodic cues. We asked whether listeners could distinguish spontaneous ‘map task’ speech from lexically iden...

Querying Improvised Music: Do You Sound Like Yourself?

This work describes and investigates a practical use-case for searching in an exploratory fashion for fragments of audio within a small collection, in the manner of Query-by-Example. Our motivation for this is to help performers, especially of improvised music, to critically assess their own improvisation style and how it relates to others’; we aim to support investigation of questions such as ...